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#249023 - 12/02/2005 10:22 More Linux questions
StigOE addict Registered: 27/10/2002 Posts: 568	I have installed Fedora 3 on my laptop along with WinXP. Fedora is installed on a LVM volume, which contains two Ext3 partitions, / and /home. Now the / partition is too small and I'd like to decrease the size of /home and increase /. It there any way to do that without deleting the partitions? Preferably resonably easy and using a GUI. I have the Fedora cd which I can probably boot up in rescue mode, and also a Suse 9.2 Livecd and MandrakeMove cd. Stig
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#249024 - 12/02/2005 10:30 Re: More Linux questions [Re: StigOE]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	lvresize should do the trick. I've never used a GUI for it so I don't know if one exists. Just look at the man page for it. If wanted to do this on one of my machines i'd do this: lvresize -L-5G /dev/vg/home That would shave 5G off my home partition, i'd then run resize_reiserfs to make sure the fs knew the partition had changed. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#249025 - 12/02/2005 11:57 Re: More Linux questions [Re: andym]
StigOE addict Registered: 27/10/2002 Posts: 568	I thought this would only resize the overall volume, not the partitions in it...? I did some searching and somewhere it said that I needed to unmount the partition when I decreased the size, which I guess is a bit difficult, unless I boot from a rescuedisk/livecd? Stig
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#249026 - 12/02/2005 12:38 Re: More Linux questions [Re: StigOE]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14482 Loc: Canada	That's why Fedora includes a rescue CD.
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#249027 - 12/02/2005 20:57 Re: More Linux questions [Re: StigOE]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	Quote: I thought this would only resize the overall volume, not the partitions in it...? Isn't that vgreduce? I use lvresize every time I run out of space in my videos partition. I keep about 40G unpartitioned in the volume group for situations like that. Quote: I did some searching and somewhere it said that I needed to unmount the partition when I decreased the size, which I guess is a bit difficult, unless I boot from a rescuedisk/livecd? Isn't that why you're not supposed to have / in an LVM group? _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#249028 - 13/02/2005 00:30 Re: More Linux questions [Re: andym]
StigOE addict Registered: 27/10/2002 Posts: 568	Managed to fix it. I booted into Fedora rescue mode and used resize2fs to reduce the size of the /home partition and lvreduce to reduce the logical volume where /home resided and then the opposite with the volume where / was. But I had to compile and install the latest e2fsprogs, as the ones on the rescue disk didn't work. Quote: Isn't that why you're not supposed to have / in an LVM group? I don't know. I just followed the advice in Linux Format magazine about using LVM... Stig
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#249029 - 13/02/2005 09:28 Re: More Linux questions [Re: StigOE]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	I just read tldp when I did my myth box that doing that was A Very Bad Thing.... I suppose my keeping / non-LVM means you could still boot the box even if the LVM volume was trashed or one of the drives containing a portion of your volume set failed. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#249030 - 14/02/2005 11:23 Re: More Linux questions [Re: andym]
JBjorgen carpal tunnel Registered: 19/01/2002 Posts: 3583 Loc: Columbus, OH	Happy Birthday Andy! _________________________ ~ John
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#249031 - 14/02/2005 11:30 Re: More Linux questions [Re: JBjorgen]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	Thank you! I was wondering whether anyone would notice. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#249032 - 14/02/2005 11:32 Re: More Linux questions [Re: andym]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	Hey! Happy Birthday!
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#249033 - 14/02/2005 11:49 Re: More Linux questions [Re: tman]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	_________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#249034 - 14/02/2005 17:04 Re: More Linux questions [Re: andym]
ashmoore addict Registered: 24/08/1999 Posts: 564 Loc: TX	Doh! Here I am wondering why you have that little icon by your name. Guess I know now then I would guess that you got some flowers _________________________ ========================== the chewtoy for the dog of Life
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